ii modern paper flyleaves + 75 folios (fols. i – iii, pp. 1 – 149, fol. iv) + ii modern paper flyleaves, 314 x 203 (ca. 255 – 270 x 185) mm, ca. 22 – 27 long lines, ruled (left margin only) in hard point and plummet
Rubric:
The names of the five conquerours of this Iland with theire funerall armes, viz.
Incipit:
Brutus the sonne of Silvius Posthumus coming out of Italie with the Troians founde out this Iland
2o folio:
(p. 3) The names of
Explicit:
(p. 147) Catherine ma[rried] to John Atherton of Atherton in Lancasherie
Contents:
pp. 1 – 2, Arms and brief accounts of the lives of Brutus, Julius Caesar, Hengist, Swain, king of Denmark and William the Bastard; pp. 3 – 4, Arms and brief accounts of the lives and issue of the first Saxons to settle in England; pp. 5 – 10, Arms and brief accounts of the lives and issue of the chief nobles in temp. Edward the Confessor "from that time unto this year 1599"; pp. 11 – 147, Arms and brief accounts of the lives and issue of the sovereigns and leading nobles of England, William I – Henry VII